Microsoft have finally released a much-needed feature in Teams which allows meeting organisers to get an attendee list of their Teams meeting. This is something I have wanted to be able to do for a while and haven’t had the option, short of using the Chat window activity.
As a meeting organiser, you will now see a new button at the top of the Participant pane when in the meeting.
If you click this, it will download a CSV that shows who joined the meeting and when. It also shows when people leave the meeting and re-join.
Here is an example output:
As you can see in the above example, you can see all the users joining the meeting, one user dropping out and re-joining midway through and then all the users leaving at the end of the meeting.
While this level of detail won’t always be necessary, I think it will certainly be useful for certain important meetings where attendance is key.
Note!
I currently cannot find a way to get this data after the meeting has ended. In fact, even if you rejoin the meeting and download the list it has lost all of the history and the attendee list has been reset.
Enabling in PowerShell
Before users can do this, you need to enable the feature in PowerShell by setting a Teams Meeting Policy. To do this for your tenant, first let’s check the current setting:
- Connect a Skype Online PowerShell session
- Run the following command:
Get-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy
In the output you need to look for the following attribute:
If ‘AllowEngagementReport’ is set to Disabled, we need to set it to Enabled.
To do this we simply run:
Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Global -AllowEngagementReport Enabled
All of your users will now be able to get an attendee list for their Teams meeting.
As will other Teams policies, you can also do this on a per user basis by changing the identity of the Policy and granting it to set users or groups.
